KR100584016B1 - Method for informing roaming service of mobile phone - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention provides a method for automatically and simultaneously sending a guide text message notifying roaming to all persons registered in the phone book or to a person designated by a user when the calling frequency band of the mobile communication terminal is changed by the roaming service setting. A first step of receiving and storing a guide text message of a roaming service setting by a user; A second step of setting, as a target of receiving a guide text message, a part or all of individuals and groups recorded in a phone book in a memory according to a user's instruction; And as the user instructs the setting of the roaming service, confirms a predetermined talk frequency band of the country selected by the user, resets the frequency band value, and converts the talk frequency band into a band value suitable for the wireless communication network of the selected country. And a third step of transmitting the stored guide text message to the recipient.

Mobile communication, terminal, roaming, notification, frequency band

Description

Roaming notification method of a mobile terminal {Method for informing roaming service of mobile phone}

1 is a block diagram of a mobile communication terminal to which the present invention is applied.

2 is a flowchart illustrating a process of inputting a guide text message regarding roaming service setting in a mobile communication terminal to which the present invention is applied.

3A to 3C are screen diagrams illustrating a process of inputting a guide text message to a mobile communication terminal to which the present invention is applied.

4 is a flowchart illustrating a roaming notification method of a mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

5A to 5D are exemplary views illustrating a roaming notification method of a mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Explanation of symbols on the main parts of the drawings

10: keypad 20: memory

30: control unit 40: LCD screen

50: radio frequency processor 60: speaker

70: microphone

The present invention relates to a roaming notification method of a mobile communication terminal, and more particularly, to a method for automatically transmitting a guide text message for notifying roaming when a communication frequency band of a mobile communication terminal is changed by roaming service setting.

In general, a GPS (Global Positioning System) satellite is used to measure the position of moving objects such as aircraft and ships. By analyzing the various data received from the GPS satellites, it is possible to know the location of the area where they are currently located. Moreover, these days, mobile communication terminals capable of measuring the location of their own place and performing a call function are being used.

However, the service simply informs the location of the mobile communication terminal only and automatically notifies the user when a specific subscriber is located near or away from a certain distance.

In order to improve this problem, Patent Application No. 2001-0083961 proposed a method for automatically notifying registered subscribers upon arrival / departure of a specific region.

A brief description of the technology proposed in the patent application is as follows.

First, when a user sets a specific area to use the automatic notification service when arriving / departing from the designated area, location information of the specific area is registered. At this time, the mobile communication terminal receives the current location information through the GPS receiver and the base station and calculates the current location.

In addition, the current position of the mobile communication terminal in movement is determined periodically or aperiodically. Subsequently, the destination location information is compared with the current location information of the mobile communication terminal, and the arrival / departure of the destination upon arrival and departure of the specific area within the specific area arrival / departure range considering the error tolerance is informed based on a preset notification method. .

If the current location of the mobile communication terminal is out of the destination arrival / departure range, that is, if it does not arrive at the destination or exists in the destination, the current location of the mobile communication terminal which is continuously moving is determined aperiodically.

As such, the conventional mobile communication terminal equipped with the GPS module could automatically notify the user when the user inputs / departures the pre-input area. However, when the communication frequency band is changed through the setting of the roaming service, the mobile communication terminal is automatically sent to a specific person. I couldn't tell you. Accordingly, when the user sets the mobile terminal to the roaming mode to temporarily go abroad, the user calls the person who has frequent calls, for example, a friend, a customer, a group member, and the like for a certain period of time. There was a hassle to inform that the terminal is set to roaming state.

The present invention has been made in order to solve the above problems, the roaming service is set by the person or user registered in the phone book, the guidance text message notifying roaming when the phone frequency band of the mobile communication terminal is changed Its purpose is to provide a way for a person to send simultaneously automatically.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide a roaming notification method of a mobile communication terminal, which can facilitate the user's convenience by automatically and simultaneously notifying the people specified by the user of the roaming service setting of the mobile communication terminal.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a roaming notification method for transmitting a guide text message of a roaming service setting of a mobile communication terminal to a predetermined subject, wherein the user receives and receives a guide text message of a roaming service setting. A first step of making; A second step of setting all or a part of individuals and groups recorded in a phone book in a memory as a recipient of the stored guide text message according to a user's instruction; And as the user instructs the setting of the roaming service, after confirming the predetermined talk frequency band of the country selected by the user, resets the frequency band value to convert the talk frequency band into a band value suitable for the wireless communication network of the selected country. And transmitting the stored guide text message to the set recipient.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings will be described in detail a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

1 is a block diagram of a mobile communication terminal to which the present invention is applied.

As shown in FIG. 1, the mobile communication terminal includes a keypad 10 for inputting a text message, a roaming setting, and various user commands, and a memory 20 for storing various information such as a phone book and a text message. And, according to the user's instructions input through the keypad 10, and stores a variety of information, including automatic guide text message in the memory 20, and transmits the automatic guide text message and various information stored in the memory 20 to the outside The controller 30 controls the roaming service setting, the call, and the like, a liquid crystal display (LCD) 40 for displaying text and image information transmitted by the controller 30, and the controller 30. A radio frequency processor 50 for converting the transmitted baseband signal into a high frequency signal and transmitting it to the outside and converting a high frequency signal received through a base station into a baseband signal and connecting it to the control unit 30; And a speaker 60 for outputting a voice signal transmitted by the controller 30 to the outside, and a microphone 70 for inputting a user voice and various sound signals.

The keypad 10 inputs a user command for executing roaming service setting of the mobile communication terminal and transmission of an automatic guide text message for notifying specific persons thereof, and also guide text message of roaming service setting stored in the memory 20. Enter a user command to automatically send. In addition, the user selects a counterpart to receive the guide text message of the roaming service setting from among those registered in the phone book in the memory 20 by pressing a key of the keypad 10.

The memory 20 receives and stores information provided as an additional service to the user, that is, a phone book and a guide text message for roaming service setting by the controller 30. In addition, the memory 20 stores an execution program for automatically transmitting the guide text message of the roaming service setting according to the present invention, and various execution programs of the controller 30.

The controller 30 automatically executes an execution program stored in the memory 20 according to a user's instruction input through the keypad 10 to automatically transmit roaming service settings and guide text messages thereof.

For example, when the user presses a key on the keypad 10 to instruct the mode to input the guide text message of the roaming service setting, the controller 30 sets the message input mode. In this input mode, when a user presses a key of the keypad 10 to input a guide text message, the controller 30 stores the input guide text message in the memory 20.

In this way, after the guide text message is set in the memory 20, when the user presses a key to instruct the setting of the roaming service, the controller 30 sets the roaming service and changes the talk frequency band of the mobile communication terminal. At this time, the controller 30 simultaneously transmits a guide text message informing about the roaming service setting to the phone numbers of people designated by the user.

The radio frequency processing unit 50 changes the communication frequency band under the control of the control unit 30. If the communication frequency band is changed, the radio frequency processing unit 50 cannot transmit or receive the frequency band signal before the change in the state where the changed frequency band is maintained. The change of the communication frequency band is for enabling the mobile communication terminal to be used in a foreign country. The roaming service is set by the controller 30 according to a user's instruction.

A process of inputting a guide text message regarding roaming service setting in a mobile communication terminal having such a configuration and transmitting the same automatically is as follows.

2 is a flowchart illustrating a process of inputting a guide text message regarding roaming service setting in a mobile communication terminal to which the present invention is applied.

Referring to FIG. 2, when a user presses a menu key on the keypad 10 (S201), the mobile communication terminal displays the top menu items as shown in FIG. 3A among the menu items stored in the memory 20. It is displayed on (S202). When the user presses a key and selects a "roaming notification" item among the menu items (S203), the mobile communication terminal displays menu items set in a lower path of the "roaming notification" item as shown in FIG. 3B (S204). On this screen, the "Message Input" item and the "Recipient" item are displayed, where the "Message Input" item is for inputting a text message regarding the guide of roaming service setting, and the "Recipient" item is a guide character of roaming service setting. This is to select the recipient to receive the message.

That is, since the current process is for inputting a guide text message, when the user presses a key and selects a "message input" item among the items displayed on the screen of FIG. 3B, the mobile communication terminal prompts the user for roaming service setting. A screen for inputting a text message is displayed as shown in FIG. 3C (S205). In this state, when the user presses a key and enters a guide text message, for example, "I will go abroad from May 1 to 10," the mobile terminal prompts for the roaming service setting. Stored as a message (S206).

After the guide text message regarding roaming service setting is set through the above process, the mobile communication terminal automatically transmits this message to a predetermined counterpart through the following process.

4 is a flowchart illustrating a roaming notification method of a mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 4, first, as the user presses the menu key on the keypad 10, the mobile communication terminal displays the top menu items as shown in FIG. 3A among the menu items stored in the memory 20 on the LCD screen 40. Display on (S401). In this state, the user presses a key to select a "roaming notification" item (S402), and then the mobile terminal displays a menu item set in a lower path of the "roaming notification" item, that is, an item including the "recipient" item. (S403).

At this time, when the user presses a key and selects the "receiver" item as shown in FIG. 5A (S404), the mobile communication terminal divides the individual and the group recorded in the phone book in the memory 20 into different items as shown in FIG. 5B. The items in the current state include the "all" item for displaying all the individuals and groups in the phone book as the recipients of the guide text message (S405).

Here, when the user presses a key to select the "all" item, the mobile communication terminal sets all individuals and groups recorded in the phone book in the memory 20 as targets to receive the guide text message of the roaming service setting. If the user presses a key and selects some individuals and / or groups from among those recorded in the phone book, for example, Hong Gil-dong, Jang Gil-san, and / or Roundabout, the mobile terminal sets the roaming service to the selected person and / or group. Set the target text message to receive.

When the screen of FIG. 5B is being displayed, when a user presses a key to select a target to receive the guide text message of the roaming service setting, the mobile terminal sets the selected person and / or group as the target of the guide text message. (S406).

As described above, after the target recipient of the guide text message according to the roaming service is set, the mobile communication terminal transmits the guide text message through the following process.

As the user presses the menu key on the keypad 10, the mobile communication terminal displays the top menu items stored in the memory 20 on the liquid crystal display 40 (S407). In this case, when the user presses a key to select the item "International roaming" as shown in FIG. 5C (S408), the mobile communication terminal searches for the roaming service providers provided in the memory 20 as shown in FIG. 5D. The names of the countries to be displayed are displayed (S409).

When the user selects one of the countries by pressing a key (S410), the mobile communication terminal checks a predetermined talk frequency band of the selected country and resets the frequency band value to select the talk frequency band. It converts the bandwidth value suitable for the country's wireless communication network and simultaneously transmits the guide text message of the predetermined roaming service setting to the individual and / or the group set in the receiving party setting process (S406) (S411).

Although the technical spirit of the present invention has been described in detail according to the above-described preferred embodiment, it should be noted that the above-described embodiment is for the purpose of description and not of limitation. In addition, those skilled in the art will understand that various embodiments are possible within the scope of the technical idea of the present invention.

As described above, the present invention, by roaming service settings, when the telephone frequency band of the mobile communication terminal is changed, by simultaneously simultaneously transmitting a notification text message notifying roaming to all persons registered in the phone book or a person designated by the user In addition, the user's convenience and the quality of the communication service can be improved, which can significantly increase the product's marketability.

Claims (4)

A roaming notification method for transmitting a guide text message of roaming service setting of a mobile communication terminal to a predetermined subject, A first step of receiving and storing a guide text message of a roaming service setting by a user; A second step of setting all or a part of individuals and groups recorded in a phone book in a memory as a recipient of the stored guide text message according to a user's instruction; And As the user instructs the setting of the roaming service, after confirming the predetermined talk frequency band of the country selected by the user, the frequency band value is reset to convert the talk frequency band into a band value suitable for the wireless communication network of the selected country, and the setting A third step of transmitting the stored guide text message to a receiving party; Roaming notification method of the mobile communication terminal comprising a. The method of claim 1, The first step is, When the user presses a menu key, the mobile communication terminal displaying first menu items among menu items stored in the memory on a liquid crystal display; Selecting a roaming notification item by pressing a key among the top menu items, the mobile terminal displaying the menu items set in a lower path of the roaming notification item; And When the user selects a message input item among the sub-menu items, the mobile terminal displays a screen for inputting a guide text message and stores the text message input by the user as a guide message for roaming service setting. -3 steps Roaming notification method of the mobile communication terminal comprising a. The method of claim 1, The second step, When the user presses a menu key, the mobile communication terminal displaying the highest menu items among the menu items stored in the memory on the LCD screen; When the user presses a key to select a recipient item from among the top menu items, the mobile communication terminal selects all of the individuals and groups listed in the phone book and selects all of the individuals and groups. Displaying the list in step 2-2; And Step 2-3 of setting a recipient of the stored guide text message from the displayed lists according to a user's instruction; Roaming notification method of the mobile communication terminal comprising a. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 3, In the third step, And the mobile communication terminal simultaneously transmits the stored guide text message to the set receiver when the frequency band value is reset.

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